The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-01-28
UMBIAN AND DEMOCRAT BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY,

when the Senate is called to order at
the commencement of the next session.
These will be Senators Hawley, Man
derson and Plumb. Fifteen Republi.
can Senators will be sworn in on the
4th of next March, but four of them
wore the Confederate gray. This will
leave the Senate with twenty ex.Con-
federates, and three soldiers of the
Union.
In regard to Lieutenant Emory's
Arctic trip, Secretary Whitney has ex-
pressed himself in no uncertain Ian
guage. Referring to the report that
the Lieut.. wanted to go North in the
"Thetis," he said the United States had
something else to do with its vessels,
naval officers and sailors besides send
ing them off on Arctic expeditions.
81 will not say, however, continued
the Secretary, shat there will be no
such expedition under the present Adj
ministration, but certainly not with my
consent. No one will receive orders
from me for such trip in consonance
with my wishes"
The President is in good health
again, but he is careful to favor his
rheumatic knee on all occasions. He
felt compelled to decline to review the
order of the Mystic Shrine which visit
ed the city during the week, for fear
of the damp air to which he would be
| exposed, and he could not go to the
top of the Washington Monument with
Mrs. Cleveland and Mr.. Corcoran ac-
cording to appointment. This trip TO
the clouds had been arranged for three
o'clock, and at that hour everything
was in readiness for the distinguished
visitors. The interior of the Monu-
ment was electrically lighted from top
to bottom, fire was built in the boiler
house, steam was generated, and sever
al preliminary trips of the elevator had
been made to see that everything was
In complete running order for the ex-
pected visit of the President Mrs.
Cleveland was on time, and announc-
ing disappointed tone that the Presi-
dent was not able to come, graceful y
rendered her arm to the venerable Mr.
Corcoran, and conducted him to the
elevator. The air inside the Monu-
ment is damp and chilly, and when the
marble door swung open blast rushed
cut that almost took the breath OF
those entering. The visitors looked
down upon the magnificent panorama
at the $40 foot level. Mrs. Cleveland
took especial interest in the White
House, and tried hard to recognize a
familiar figure at the library window.
Tomorrow the prominent advocates
of woman suffrage will begin their
nineteenth annual convention in this
city, and tomorrow Senator Blair will
make an effort TO have the Woman
Suffrage amendment to the Constitu-
tion discussed in the Senate. Miss Su-
san B. Anthony, who has been here for
some weeks, is as grim and hopeful and
resolute as ever, wearing her defeats of
the last forty years as chez riullv as
other veterans wear plumes of victory.
She doesn't think at all well of press
reporters, however. She says, where
women are concerned, at least, the re-
porters are sure to seize upon some
triviality and ring its changes to the
exclusion of business. She mentioned
that when she spoke in Chicago last
week, dog that came with newspa
per reporter ran across the stage aud
springing up laid his nose on her shoul-
der. 81 prophesied to the audience
then," continued she, "that that dog
would figure in the press reports more
conspicuously than anything that was
said or done, and so he did"
| Miss Anthony does not change much
as the years 60 by. The opening of
some new avenue for the employment
of women, or some new gleam of Hope
from State Legislature always comes
opportunely to offset the effects of
years and labors that might otherwise
be adding new wrinkles to her brow.